Registration Document BOUYGUES

Highlights since 1 January 2012
against French satirical newspaper Le Canard
Enchaîné, its publisher and the two journalists
responsible for articles about the award of the
contract for the new French Defence Ministry
complex in Paris was heard by the Paris District
Court on 18 January 2012. The Bouygues group
claimed damages for accusations which it considered
to be false and highly libellous. On 14 March
2012 the court, while allowing that the journalists
had acted in good faith and hence rejecting the
Bouygues group's claim for compensation, found
that the majority of the allegations made by Le
Canard Enchaîné were libellous. It also found
that Le Canard Enchaîné had not furnished any
evidence whatsoever that Bouygues was under
judicial investigation.
BOUYGUES IMMOBILIER
The future head office of Clarins group in Paris,
designed by Valode & Pistre
BOUYGUES
CONSTRUCTION
In January, Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), the
French rail network operator, named the Bouyguesled
consortium preferred bidder for the publicprivate
partnership (PPP) contract for the Nimes-
Montpellier railway bypass. The consortium
comprises Bouygues Construction (Bouygues
Travaux Publics and DTP Terrassement), Colas
(Colas Rail and Colas Midi-Méditerranée), Alstom
Transport, Spie Batignolles and financial investors.
The 25-year PPP contract covers the financing,
design, construction, operation, maintenance and
upkeep of 80 km of new track.
Dragages Hong Kong, a Bouygues Construction
subsidiary, won a contract worth around €207
million to design and build a 22-storey tower in
Hong Kong. With floor area of 66,600 m², the building
will house several government agencies. It is
scheduled for delivery in 2014. The tower will be
built to high environmental standards in the Kai Tak
Development Area, where Dragages Hong Kong is
already building a major cruise terminal.
The Arelia consortium, whose shareholders are
Bouygues Construction subsidiaries Bouygues
Bâtiment Ile-de-France and Exprimm alongside
financial investors, has concluded a contract with
Établissement Public du Palais de Justice de
Paris, a public body acting on behalf of the French
government, to finance, design, and build the new
Paris law courts complex and provide maintenance
and upkeep services for 27 years. The building will
group five facilities currently spread around Paris
together on the same site. Bouygues Bâtiment
Ile-de-France will be responsible for design and
construction, for a total of €575 million. Exprimm,
a subsidiary of ETDE, will provide facilities management
services for the complex for an annual
fee of €12.8 million. Designed by architect Renzo
Piano for the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the
160m-tall building will be composed of separate
functional elements, including over a hectare
(2.5 acres) of open-air terraces planted with trees,
in the middle of Paris, and a podium housing
more than 90 courtrooms. Work is due to start in
summer 2013 and will last three-and-a-half years.
The project will set a new benchmark for energy
consumption in a high-rise building.
The libel suit brought by Bouygues, Bouygues
Construction and Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France
The Clarins group has chosen Bouygues
Immobilier to develop its future head office in the
17th arrondissement of northwest Paris. The turnkey
development will house all the Clarins group’s
employees on eight floors and three basement
levels. The building, designed by architects Valode
& Pistre, is noteworthy for its unusual façades and
garden placed at the heart of the development.
The project is aiming for high-level environmental
certification. Handover is expected in the first half
of 2014.
COLAS
Colas Rail and Colas Midi-Méditerranée are
members of the consortium that has been named
preferred bidder for the public-private partnership
contract to build the Nimes-Montpellier railway
bypass.
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